"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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I was born modest not all over but in spots.
More Mark Twain quotes
"He liked to like people therefore people liked him.
"Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
"I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
"It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would ...
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.